Deck 13: The Baroque Age

Question 1

Poussin often chose subjects from classical literature and emphasized __________.

A) everyday subjects
B) religious sentiment
C) landscape
D) cityscape
E) atmosphere

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The mid-sixteenth century movement for reform in the Roman Catholic Church is called the __________.

A) Counter-Reformation
B) Reformation
C) Renaissance
D) academicism
E) universalism

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The philosophy of __________ was based on the premise "Doubt everything."

A) Bacon
B) Galileo
C) Descartes
D) Newton
E) Kepler

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The corpulent cupids found in Rubens' paintings are called __________.

A) angels
B) putti
C) Minerva
D) framing devices
E) corpuli

Question 5

The Spanish baroque painter __________ is associated with the mystical and inward-looking nature of the Counter-Reformation.

A) Velázquez
B) Rodriguez
C) Sanchez
D) El Greco
E) Romero

Question 6

The work of the Roman baroque painter __________ turned away from idealized religious scenes in favor of mundane scenes.

A) El Greco
B) Velázquez
C) Caravaggio
D) Rubens
E) Ruysch

Question 7

The work of Peter Paul Rubens is an example of the __________ baroque.

A) mystical
B) aristocratic
C) bourgeois
D) anti-classical
E) classical

Question 8

__________ asserts that reason is a better path to knowledge than experience or observation.

A) Empiricism
B) Scholasticism
C) Protestantism
D) Idealism
E) Rationalism

Question 9

Rembrandt became the first __________ artist.

A) wealthy
B) capitalist
C) socialist
D) secular
E) anti-classical

Question 10

The Counter-Reformation involved a reinstatement of the medieval __________.

A) craft guilds
B) monasteries
C) Inquisition
D) nunneries
E) fiefdom

Question 11

The sculptures of __________ are exemplary of the baroque aesthetic.

A) Ruisdael
B) Vermeer
C) Bernini
D) Ruysch
E) Rubens

Question 12

The work of __________ is baroque in style.

A) Alberti
B) Michelangelo
C) Palladio
D) Fragonard
E) Bernini

Question 13

__________ is a government with power vested in the hands of an absolute monarch.

A) Communism
B) Aristocracy
C) Liberalism
D) Absolutism
E) Monarchy

Question 14

The modern scientific method is based on __________.

A) rationalism
B) deduction
C) induction
D) idealism
E) the Reformation

Question 15

A mode of inquiry that reaches conclusions by moving from the general to the specific is called __________.

A) induction
B) abduction
C) argument
D) deduction
E) logic

Question 16

The dramatic use of light and shade in Baroque painting is called __________.

A) modeling
B) dramatism
C) emotionalism
D) chiaroscuro
E) classicism

Question 17

__________ refers to the attempt of a government to control and arbitrate art and taste.

A) Despotism
B) Rationalism
C) Divine monarchy
D) Academicism
E) Totalitarianism

Question 18

John Locke believed that the each person is born __________.

A) corrupt
B) sinful
C) blank
D) rational
E) artistic

Question 19

The work of Rembrandt is associated with the __________ baroque style.

A) aristocratic
B) bourgeois
C) church
D) popular
E) neoclassical

Question 20

The __________ style exalted intuition,inspiration,and the genius of human creativity.

A) neoclassical
B) rococo
C) traditional
D) baroque
E) Renaissance

Question 21

English __________ poetry turned from love to an inward questioning.

A) monastic
B) Elizabethan
C) epic
D) metaphysical
E) sonnet

Question 22

The __________ combines a sacred subject with a narrative poetic text.

A) concerto
B) program music
C) restoration comedy
D) cantata
E) oratorio

Question 23

Baroque painters symbolized the fleeting nature of life and beauty with __________.

Question 24

Rather than using atmospheric perspective,in Landscape with the Burial of Phocion,Poussin depicts objects farthest away as clearly as those in the __________.

Question 25

.The __________ was invented during the baroque period.

A) novel
B) opera
C) sonata
D) symphony
E) monody

Question 26

Operas grew out of __________.

A) poems
B) madrigals
C) folk music
D) symphonies
E) religious chants

Question 27

The monarch __________ embodied the baroque age.

A) Charles II
B) James IV
C) George III
D) Louis XIV
E) Bernard II

Question 28

The __________ method is an example of induction,not deduction.

Question 29

The work of __________ proposed three new laws of planetary motion.

Question 30

The absolute monarch ruled by __________ right.

Question 31

The "court masque" was developed in __________.

A) France
B) Italy
C) England
D) Greece
E) Netherlands

Question 32

Between 1600 and __________ most European artists used the baroque style.

Question 33

The plots for French ballets came from __________.

A) contemporary literature
B) the Old Testament
C) classical mythology
D) earlier dance forms
E) individual playwrights

Question 34

The small group among whom opera developed was called the __________.

Question 35

The development of the __________ included fictional biographies of people with whom the reader would identify.

A) opera
B) metaphysical poem
C) restoration comedy
D) novel
E) ballet

Question 36

The palace of __________ symbolized the monarchy and divine right of kings,particularly Louis XIV.

Question 37

The Well-Tempered Clavier was written by Johann Sebastian ????__________.

Question 38

One of the principle developments of baroque theatre was French __________.

A) anticlassicism
B) court masque
C) comedy
D) neoclassicism
E) romanticism

Question 39

__________ comedy focused on the adventures of "people of quality" and poked fun at the morality of the bourgeoisie.

Question 40

Antonio Vivaldi is known as a master of __________.

A) opera
B) restoration comedy
C) sonata
D) concerto
E) program music

Question 41

What institution helped cement the rules of baroque-era dance?

Question 42

The English masque is remembered for its literary merit.

Question 43

Who was the first Englishwoman to earn a living by writing?

Question 44

Rembrandt expressed the values of a small aristocracy.

Question 45

The studio of Peter Paul __________ is noted for its many assistants and high output.

Question 46

Who were the patrons of landscape painting?

Question 47

The fugue was most highly developed by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Question 48

Jan Vermeer is known for his flower paintings.

Question 49

The novel __________,by Miguel Cervantes,is a parody of chivalric romances.

Question 50

__________ music presents only musical ideas.

Question 51

Was St.Theresa associated with the Reformation or the Counter-Reformation?

Question 52

Metaphysical poetry is often about love and chivalry.

Question 53

Baroque music is noted for its melodic simplicity.

Question 54

The human figure dominates the landscape in all Baroque painting.

Question 55

Baroque sculpture epitomizes self-containment.

Question 56

The Death of the Virgin,by __________,was rejected by the parish of Santa Maria del Popolo.

Question 57

Thomas Hobbes and John Locke believed government should be founded on a social __________.

Question 58

The work of John Milton was uncompromisingly Catholic.

Question 59

Which important instrument replaced the viol during the baroque era?

Question 60

In France the absolutist state and the church worked in harmony.

Question 61

Pick a work of any medium.Discuss in detail how it supports the ideas of either the Reformation or the Counter-Reformation.

Question 62

Compare and contrast a work by an "aristocratic baroque" artist and a work of another artist discussed in this chapter.What do their differences and similarities tell us about the baroque era? Do you think the work of Rubens or another "aristocratic baroque" artist necessarily supports the aristocracy? (Consider the high output of his workshop,for example.)

Question 63

Consider the relationship between the rise of science,on one hand,and liberal political theory (such as that of John Locke)on the other.Explain how they both challenge key assumptions supporting rule by divine right and absolutism.